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One is a Report on a Botanical Survey of the Tongariro National 

 Park, which was created by Act of Parliament in 1894, and the 

 other deals with the Waipoua Kauri Forest reserve. Both reports 

 are of a comprehensive and interesting character and contain a 

 mass of admirably treated botanical information. The photo- 

 graphs with which they are illustrated considerably enhance their 

 value and are deserving of high praise. 



These reports together with the previous report on Kapiti 

 Island (K.B., 1908, p. 266) form a fitting tribute to the wisdom of 

 the Minister of Lands, New Zealand, in directing that these 

 surveys should be undertaken and in having placed the work in 

 the hands of Dr. Cockayne. 



Trinidad Herbarium List— A List of the specimens mounted 

 and classified in the herbarium of the Botanical Department, 

 Trinidad, has been compiled by Mr. J. H. Hart, lately Superin- 

 tendent. From a collection of 3,000 specimens in 1887 the 

 number has increased to about 30,000 in 1908, and besides 

 Trinidad plants includes specimens from Bolivia, Porto Rico, 

 Grenada, &c. It appears that a large number of additions have 

 yet to be arranged and classified, but as it stands the list shows a 

 good representative collection of the flora of Trinidad. 



Southern Islands Expedition.-A letter has been addressed to the 

 litor of the Kew Bulletin bv the Philosophical Institute ot 



^unur or me JS^eiv nuueiin vy mo ^ i'"«<=T" — - - ~ . 



Canterbury, New Zealand, on the subject of the article by Uapt. 



This letter has been for- 



emen Smith in Kew Bulletin, No. b. mis wtwr u* ^^ «« 

 warded to Capt. Dorrien-Smith and he has requested us to insert 

 his apologies to the Philosophical Institute in the bulletin. 



With regard to the photographs it must be stated, in fairness to 

 Capt. Dorrien-Smith, that the words " taken by " at the end of the 

 Explanation of Plates were inserted without his knowledge, but 

 in the belief that the photographs selected were, as was the case 

 with the majority of the large collection submitted, his own work. 



Bear Sir, 



The Editor, The Kew Bulletin. 



necessary 



as some explanation seems w "« , T l J \u a P^insonhiral 

 article appearing under your issue No. 6, to the ,Ph ^pineal 

 Institute of Canterbury, I shall be very much oblige ^ if you * ill 



insert in ^•MijW^^Sw 

 circumstance would appear a breach ot faith on tne J^ 



who was a much honoured member ot the ©oiu 



Expedition organised by them in »^^^J£|S£E 

 wishes to assure the Council that 5^&C^£SX 

 ion whatever of infringing their rights *hen ?ep 

 to the publication of what was originally a .££** » art , 

 was quite unaware that the photographs appearing 



